Description[]
A fight between two fourth-wall-breaking, undead fighters with a sense of humour! Will Gengar end up with a new travelling companion, or will Sans show just how determined he really is?
Please note that the Gengar featured here is a naturally found, wild one, meaning it is limited to only natural moves and abilities, meaning no TMs, TRs, Move Tutor Moves, Egg Moves, or anything of the sort, and especially no Mega Evolution or Gigantamax. Pre-evolution-exclusive moves are OK, however, though Gengar doesn't actually have any.
Written by Th3Gr8DrX
Interlude[]
Wiz: What happens after we die?
Boomstick: Well, apparently it's just more life.
Wiz: Yeah... but at least you don't have to care about anything anymore. It's all just jokes from that point forward, as seen with Gengar, the Shadow Pokémon.
Boomstick: And Sans, the Underground's judge and last line of defense. He's Wiz and I'm Boomstick.
Wiz: And it's our job to analyze their weapons, armour and skills to find out who would win... a Death Battle.
Gengar[]
Boomstick: The Pokémon world is kinda f*cked up. I mean... there are giant, magical, world-ending monsters in your own backyard... and yet parents are willing to let their 11-year-olds just venture out? How has anyone survived?
Wiz: Oh, a lot of people don't.
Boomstick: Damn! That's dark.
Wiz: A number of ghost Pokémon are really just dead humans, like Yamask, Phantump, Honedge, and, of course, Gengar.
Gengar is seen appearing suddenly, startling Ash and Pikachu.
Wiz: Standing at 4'11" and having a body like a living shadow, Gengar specializes in evasion, possessing the ability to sink into the shadows and travel freely through the ground, possibly even other dimensions.
Boomstick: And what does it use this power for? Why, pranks, of course! It can take over your shadow and make it dance around and grin and stuff! OoOoOoOoOoh! SpoOoOoOoOoky! Oh, and also it might just straight up kill you.
Wiz: Typically good natured and fairly innocent, if not a little mischievous, but it can get a little lonely sometimes.
DUMMI: A fate I know all too well...
The Gengar on Wiz and Boomstick's screen takes notice of DUMMI, and tries to jump at it to startle it, but hits its head on the screen, and starts licking it.
Boomstick: What's... what's with that thing?
My terrible Gengar rig
Wiz: Yeah... so, it gets a little lonely sometimes, and so it figures that since it's a dead human, it can, well... make itself some friends. Just like I did!
DUMMI: (Sighs) indeed...
Wiz: So, yeah, being what is essentially an animal with the intellect of a human can be hard, but it's also a good thing, because you need to be smart to use Gengar's power to its fullest.
Boomstick: Yeah, saying it's a technical fighter is an understatement. It can manipulate Dark Energy, that stuff Ghost-Type attacks are made of, usually to throw powerful Shadow Balls, and it can use all of its nasty thoughts as a weapon with Dark Pulse! Okay, THAT'S cool! DUMMI! Come here!
DUMMI floats over to Boomstick, sighing. Boomstick places his index fingers on his temples and tries to launch a blast made of his thoughts at it.
Wiz: It can also manifest it in a more physical manner, creating giant fists to punch at unsuspecting targets for a nasty surprise.
Boomstick: Oh, neat. It has the Madama Butterfly. Also like Bayonetta, it can fly through the air and juggle you, taunting you all the while.
Wiz: Yes, its air mobility is surprisingly precise. It can fly for as long as it likes, seemingly able to just say no to gravity.
Boomstick: But flying is nothing when it can paralyze you with a Lick, or put you to sleep with Hypnosis.
Wiz: And once you're asleep, you're at its mercy. It can steal your memories, dreams, and even life force with Dream Eater, have you experience visions so horrible they actually hurt you in real life with Nightmare, or blast you with a powerful Hex, a strange power that gets far stronger when you're at its mercy.
Boomstick: It can hit you with a Confuse Ray, which, depending on what it wants, can make you a bit dizzy or just full-on knock you unconscious, or keep you from being able to run from it with Mean Look. Plus, if it's ever in a particularly desperate situation, it can use Curse! that move really hits the nail on the head! Eh? Eh?
Wiz: (sighs) And above all else, it can hit you when you're least ready for it with a Sucker Punch.
Boomstick: Wow, okay, so Gengar can seriously mess you up, huh? But it isn't perfect, right? I mean, I've played Pokémon, and sure, it's fast and strong, but it has a defense stat of, like, 2, right?
Wiz: Well, yes. The main thing it has going for it is its ability to overwhelm you, but it is one of the glassiest glass cannons. It takes hits like a wet tissue despite dishing them out like a truck. So that certainly doesn't help it in any regards.
Gengar looks at Boomstick from the screen.
Boomstick (nervously): Uh... not to say that that in any way devalues it as a fighter... heh... heh...
Wiz: You have a point. Even though it goes down in only a few hits, you'll need some really good luck to actually hit it.
Pokédex: You can hear tales told all over the world about how Gengar will pay a visit to children who are naughty. Even your home isn't safe. Gengar will lurk in whatever dark corner of a room it can find and wait for its chance to catch its prey.
Sans[]
Boomstick: Alright! For the 80 millionth time now!
Wiz: Long ago, two races ruled the Earth: humans and monsters. They coexisted peacefully for a long time, until the humans started to fear the monsters for their ability to become a god by stealing human SOULs.
Boomstick: So the humans waged war on the monsters, eventually winning and banishing them underground, sealing them there with a magical spell, never for them to return to the surface. Unless...
Wiz: ...unless they could somehow get seven human SOULs to break the barrier.
Boomstick: But they all knew that that wasn't going to be happening for a looooooong time. So in the meantime, they just tried to settle down, to make some kind of home for themselves.
Wiz: It was pretty basic stuff, really. The majority went to Waterfall, the fiery ones went to Hotland, and the furry ones went to Snowdin.
Boomstick: Yeah. Basic. Oh yeah, and then one day, Sans and his brother Papyrus showed up and... uh... "asserted themselves". Yep, nothing strange here, just a living skeleton who can't get enough of Ketchup and would rather do literally anything than his job.
Wiz: Yeah. Nothing strange whatsoever.
Sans suddenly appears next to Wiz and Boomstick.
Boomstick: AAAH!
Wiz (at the same time): What the f*ck?!
Sans: whoops, sorry fellas. my bad.
Sans disappears.
Boomstick: Perfectly... normal...
Wiz: Okay, so... there might be something a little odd about him...
Sans is seen walking in the completely wrong direction and yet somehow still ending up at Grillby's.
Wiz: No one knows exactly who Sans is, or why he is the way that he is, but he has all kinds of meta knowledge about being in a game and whatnot, as well as being able to use... uh... "shortcuts".
Boomstick: Yeah, he can go one way and wind up somewhere entirely different! What a fun and wacky character!
Sans is seen stopping time to talk to Frisk in Grillby's.
Boomstick: Uuuuuuhhh...?
My terrible Sans rig
Wiz: Somehow, Sans got ahold of a rather large amount of DETERMINATION, the ability to control time. He can't reset time like Frisk or Flowey, but he can stop it, allowing him to do things like speak privately to someone, as well as do what looks like teleportation.
Boomstick: So, yeah, he's got himself a pretty cool power. Unfortunately...
Chara: The easiest enemy. Can only deal 1 damage.
Wiz: He may be incredibly, incredibly weak, but... well... no buts. He's very weak. Very, very weak. Any hit can kill him and his hits are more pathetic than Boomstick's.
Boomstick: Hey!
He takes a swing at Wiz, but Wiz dodges easily and tases him. Boomstick falls down.
Wiz: The thing is, though, he has one more thing going for him. When all else fails, when there's one specific person he can no longer afford not to kill, his hidden ability, Karmic Retribution, activates, making his attacks afflict his poor victim with something like an extremely potent poison, despite each individual hit still being weak.
Boomstick gets up.
Boomstick: And boy, does he use those attacks to the fullest! For one thing, he's got his bone attacks, pretty straightforward, but he can use them soooo many different ways! Sprouting them from surfaces, launching them through the air, even just those can be scary.
Wiz: And, like his brother, he has access to Blue Attacks. DUMMI!
DUMMI comes back.
DUMMI: Oh, joy. I've been summoned.
Wiz pulls out a blue bone.
Wiz: Observe.
He swings the bone at DUMMI, who flinches, only for it to not do anything at all to it.
Wiz: Blue Attacks do absolutely nothing if the target is standing still, but...
Wiz harmlessly sticks the bone through DUMMI, then pushes it, resulting in the bone causing it severe internal damage. DUMMI malfunctions, then falls to the ground, destroyed.
Wiz: Sooooo... yeah. But that's nothing compared to the Gaster Blasters.
Boomstick: You know, just your average GIANT MEGALASER LAUNCHER!!! WOOOOOOOO!
Wiz: Though, it should be noted that they also only do 1 damage per hit, but with the same KR effect as the bones.
Boomstick: And last but not least, we have his ability to manipulate gravity, acting as telekinesis, or just forcing his opponents to fight him from on the wall.
Wiz: Yeah... he's got a lot of tricks up his inconspicuous sleeves, so you'd better hope you're not a sinner when Sans is in town.
Sans: huh. always wondered why people never use their strongest attack first.
DEATH BATTLE[]
Sans and Papyrus are seen walking through Snowdin towards the direction of the Ruins in order to check on their traps, conversing as they do so.
Sans: so, howve things been with undyne?
Papyrus: NOT SO GREAT. SHE'S BEEN REALLY BUSY LATELY, SAYING SOMETHING ABOUT A NEW MONSTER HAVING SHOWN UP.
Sans: oh, really?
Papyrus: SHE SAID TO STAY AWAY FROM IT, BUT I JUST HAD TO SAY HELLO!
He pauses.
Papyrus: THEY'RE NOT VERY FRIENDLY. UNDYNE MIGHT HAVE TO STEP IN AND TALK TO THEM. THERE HAVE BEEN... COMPLAINTS... ABOUT THEIR JOKES GOING TOO FAR.
Sans: its been hurting people?
Sans' eyes darken.
Sans: are you okay?
Papyrus: OF COURSE! IT WAS NOTHING I COULDN'T HANDLE! I AM THE GREAT PAPYRUS, AFTER ALL!
Sans: heh heh... right... how could i forget?
Sans stops.
Sans: hey... you go on ahead... i need to check something real quick.
Papyrus: ALRIGHT, COME BACK SOON! BUT IF THIS IS YOUR WAY OF GETTING OUT OF WORK, I SWEAR!
Papyrus runs ahead, while Sans stops and reflects.
Sans: man... and i thought the kid was the only thing i had to worry about. someone's definitely gonna have to do something about this.
He stands there for a second, then figures...
Sans: well, no point in thinking about it now, right?
He decides that whatever it is will eventually come find him anyway, and figures that he should just catch up with Papyrus for now.
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He takes a few steps, but then stops. Something is wrong. His shadow stretches out behind him, and appears to be looking at him. He turns around, but nothing is there. Then, a ghostly, purple monster jumps out of the ground, trying unsuccessfully to scare Sans.
Gengar: Geng! Gengar!
Sans: so... youre the new guy, huh? paps tells me youve been attacking people. including him.
Gengar: Kekeke!
Sans winks at it.
Sans: ... yeah. that's not gonna fly.
Pause. The two are staring each other down.
Sans: i dont love getting my hands dirty... ill tell you what - if you leave now, im willing to forget about all of this. but if you take one more step, youd better not expect me to SPARE you.
Gengar comically takes one step toward Sans, and then laughs, having found its actions hilarious, but, at the same time, being excited for the fight it knows is coming. Sans closes his eyes.
Sans: well... youve got a lot of spine... ill give you that. but you seem to misunderstand. this isn't gonna be fun.
He opens his eyes, revealing total darkness.
Sans: no... youre gonna have a really bad time.
FIGHT!
Sans summons a bone from the ground and then sends it at Gengar, who dodges it with an aerial front flip, charging up a Shadow Ball as it flies through the air, releasing it at its opponent upon landing. Moments before it collides with Sans' face, he vanishes, very much confusing the ghost. Did it win? Was one hit all it took? Yes! It won! It started to laugh to itself about how easy the fight was opposed to how it thought, but, not paying attention, was being approached by a shadowy figure, who reveals himself to be Sans by sneaking up behind the Pokémon and, summoning a large, animal skull-like device, saying,
Sans: boo.
Gengar turns around just in time to see the Gaster Blaster's beam firing right at it, narrowly dodging with a backflip, and countering with a Dark Pulse, only for Sans to once again simply vanish. The ghost Pokémon, still not sure if it had successfully put down its foe, stays cautious but performs a simple backflip while floating in the air, only to come face-to-face with Sans, who had somehow snuck up behind it. Sans rose his arm, and Gengar is just barely able to dive into the ground to get out of the way of the oncoming barrage of white and blue bones.
Sans, calmly putting its arm down, isn't worried in the slightest. Where is it going to resurface?
Suddenly, all at once, Gengar jumps out of the ground and makes a punching motion, causing a giant, purple fist to materialize out of the air in front of the skeleton, coming straight for his head.
...
But he's ready.
Moments before disaster, without moving an inch, his eye glows blue, and he stops time. Except for him, everything goes dark.
Sans: huh. wouldve sucked to have been hit by that.
Calmly, he takes a few steps toward his foe, then summons two bones, one from the ground in front of Gengar, and the other sticking out from a wall behind it.
Time restarts, and Gengar notices too late that something's changed. The bone animates, and hits it in the face before ricocheting away, knocking it off-balance, but really not hurting much. Gengar, annoyed, lunges toward Sans, but Sans's eye glows blue once more, and then, as its body turns blue, it finds itself immobilzed in the air by its opponent's gravity manipulation.
Sans: hey. hows it hangin'?
...
Sans: yeah, thats what i thought.
He throws it against the bone he had grown out of the wall earlier, impaling it, causing it to flinch.
Sans: well, that was easi-
Apparently unharmed, Gengar opens its eyes, and, before the skeleton can react, vanishes into the shadows once more.
Sans: ... well, crap.
He starts looking around, when, slowly, a dark rift appears under his feet. He notices just in time and teleports out of the way, as a giant Shadow Punch erupts from the ground, Gengar soon to follow, throwing a Shadow Ball as soon as it lands. This tme, however, Sans simply stands there, turning the ball blue and firing it back at its sender, who isn't able to get out of the way in time and gets knocked down, only to be telekinetically picked up and thrown around, slammed against the ground a few times, and then brought up to Sans' face.
Sans: you shouldnt hurt people for no reason. well, its been fun, but...
He summons another Gaster Blaster, pointing it at Gengar.
Sans: and to think this all could have been avoided... if youd just have played nice.
The Pokémon attempts to struggle against Sans' gravitational control, but accomplishing very little.
Sans: heh heh... dont bother struggling.
Gengar suddenly opens its eyes, and they begin to glow. Sans is taken aback.
Sans: wh... wha...
Failing to fight off the drowsiness, he falls asleep. Gengar, now free, uses Hex, causing a violent assault on Sans. Waking up, he falls to the ground, bleeding slightly from the mouth. He tries to get up, but Gengar crushes his skull with one last Shadow Punch, and he turns to dust. Gengar laughs. That was fun, it had a great time.
Suddenly, a voice calls out.
Papyrus: SANS! SANS, WHERE ARE YOU? I KNEW YOU WERE JUST TRYING TO TAKE ANOTHER BREAK! YOU LAZYBONES!
Gengar heads off in the direction of its next "playmate".
Analysis[]
Boomstick: Oooooh... looks like he needed just a touch more backbone to pull out a win here...
Wiz: Okay, just to get something out of the way here - Gengar doesn't win solely because "he's a ghost, he's already dead".
Boomstick: Yeah, see, Gengar doesn't really have a physical body, but Sans' attacks directly attack the SOUL, meaning they can still harm something that is more or less just a shadow, as long as they're alive in some way. But, okay, let's get into it.
Wiz: Both combatants were very similar in terms of fighting styles - they both fought from a distance, were experts at dodging, and couldn't take hits well at all. The key difference here is that Gengar technically could take a hit... while Sans literally couldn't.
Boomstick: Yep. Touch him once and you've beaten him. Of course, it isn't quite as simple as that, I mean, he can stop time for crying out loud!
Wiz: True, but he can't interact with things during stopped time, so this is really only a method of dodging and setting up attacks. Which, to be fair, is still useful, but just isn't enough sometimes.
Boomstick: Well, yeah. Even if Sans can get a bone right up in Gengar's face in stopped time, it doesn't mean that Gengar won't take notice as soon as it can and just dive underground or something. I mean, it can dodge much faster things, like priority attacks like Shadow Sneak and Aqua Jet, which move faster than the eye can see!
Wiz: Furthermore, Sans has never had to deal with fighting someone who can do the things Gengar can, like putting you to sleep and moving through shadows, while Gengar has dealt with more or less everything Sans has in his arsenal.
Boomstick: I mean, if you think of everything Pokémon can do, there are ones that teleport, ones that have telekinesis, ones that shoot lasers, ones that can manipulate gravity, even ones that use bones as weapons!
Wiz: But there's one more thing we have to mention - the mechanics of Karmic Retribution. See, there's a reason Sans doesn't try to stop Frisk until the very end of the Genocide Route - he simply couldn't. He had to wait until Frisk had killed enough people to have KR actually come into effect.
Boomstick: Yeah... and, sure, Gengar kill, but only ever for one of two reasons. The first, and most common one, being for food. And that's not really a sin... that's just an animal needing to, you know, eat so as to not die.
Wiz: And the second being loneliness - to create a friend. And it's only ever stated to want a travelling companion, meaning it really only kills in cold blood a few times, max. So, yeah. Basically, KR does not affect Gengar, meaning its low defense means absolutely nothing since Sans' attacks will do basically nothing to it.
Boomstick: And... yeah. That's basically it. Sans more or less can't hurt Gengar, and even if it can't hit him back or even put him to sleep, Sans isn't good at long battles, and will pass out from exhaustion pretty quickly. Frankly, Sans just needed a skele-ton more power to stand a ghost of a chance.
Wiz: The winner is Gengar.
Gengar's win screen from Pokkén Tournament is shown - it waves at the player, then looks at its stats and starts to try to lick them.
Comparison[]
- Strength/Power: Gengar > Sans
- Intelligence: Gengar < Sans
- Speed: Gengar > Sans
- Durability: Gengar > Sans
- Versatility: Gengar > Sans
- Experience: Gengar < Sans